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LEGO Jan-May 2022 Catalog Now Available Online in Multiple Language Editions

As the previous year drew to a close, LEGO fired up collectors with a glimpse of what’s more to come. They did so in the form of their periodic product catalogs, the latest issue covering January to May 2022. LEGO news sources worldwide that managed to score print copies of their respective regional catalogs posed page-scans online. They became our top resources on what LEGO sets to expect this New Year. Some of those sets we already featured here in The Brick Show. Of course, LEGO also provides digital copies of the same product catalogs. And now they’re available online.

Thanks to German LEGO news site Promobricks, we’re aware that the Jan-May 2022 LEGO catalogs are now in LEGO.com servers. Indeed, we said catalogs (plural), due to the various regional/language editions available for browsing and download. The different versions go beyond mere translating product details into other languages. Their volume of content varies too. We pointed this out last December, with set details from the Hungary catalog not included in the German version. Promobricks did a database of the editions, showing Spain/Portugal and France both with just 76 pages. Italy by contrast has 144 pages.

Interestingly, the US LEGO.com is yet to upload their copy of the catalog in their page. Then again, the contents may well be similar to the UK version viewable here. We encourage you to have a peek in as many versions of the Jan-May 2022 catalogs as you can. It could help you greatly with your collecting efforts. The print catalogs available in retailers and LEGO Stores are still there as well. We do hope that they don’t follow the monthly store calendars into phase-out.

“Brickcraft”: Cool Resource Pack Gives “Minecraft” Blocks a LEGO-Brick Makeover

Back in 2012, LEGO Ideas (Cuusoo back then) released their third set, based on surprise videogame hit “Minecraft.” This would lead to a full-on LEGO licensed-IP theme line that still gets new sets to this year. That much was expected considering the source franchise. Since its official release in 2011 (classic version 2009), “Minecraft” has built a solid player base. The fact that it went multiple platforms helped a lot too. And the simple yet robust construction mechanics made it a perfect fit with the LEGO system when translated to sets. But what do you think of the LEGO aesthetics getting translated into the games?

Brickcraft | Turn your world into Bricks in Minecraft! from lego

Now this is an unofficial thing, being a game mod and all. But as Game Rant tells it, a “Minecraft” player is working on a resource pack called “Brickcraft.” This mod transforms the blocks that all materials in the “Minecraft” world look like, into 4×4 LEGO bricks. For all intents and purposes, it makes the game world akin to a brick-built environment. The user AlexTestria has been working on this mod for five months already. He uploaded a sample video of the newest revisions in action on TikTok then shared the preview on LEGO subreddit.

From what we can see in the sample footage, “Brickcraft” appears like Mojang and WB-Interactive’s TT Games have teamed up. Seeing the “Minecraft” blocks as LEGO bricks (above and below) is mind-blowing, and a testament to AlexTestria’s team’s efforts. Interested players may download the “Brickcraft” resource pack on the creator’s Patreon page. The mod’s latest version 1.3 (low-quality) is available for free. But for a $2.56/€2 Patreon donation, he’ll provide the higher-quality editions. Apparently this pack is for PC version.

New Duplo “Bath Time Fun” Sets Now Available

Giving very young children a bath can be one of the most challenging family tasks. Reasons may range from a youngster’s dislike of bathing, period, to their being unable to sit still while being washed. A long-effective means to make young-age bathing enjoyable has been the use of toys. Floating rubber duckies have been longtime all-ages bathtub companions for that reason. Not all toys can be used like so. LEGO bricks certainly won’t work; smaller pieces could easily disappear underwater. What about LEGO’s big little brother, Duplo? Judging from these newly-available sets, they could work.

According to Brick Fanatics, three bathing-themed Duplo sets are now available via LEGO.com online. All of them center on cute Duplo-brick animals that combine with flotation devices shaped like swim rings. These early-age builds are so buoyant that, as seen in the box art, they’ll keep afloat even when poured on. We’ve got an adorable variety of Duplo critters that kiddie builders can choose from. Each set comes with a tiny plastic bucket for them to load water to splash on their floating buddies. The price ranges are pretty chill too, depending on how many floating Duplo-animals you want for your child. Let’s see them:

LEGO Duplo: Bath Time Fun

Floating Red Panda (10964)

5 pieces | $9.99

Developmental bath time fun – LEGO® DUPLO® My First Bath Time Fun: Floating Red Panda (10964) provides playful learning opportunities, bath after bath

Easy-to-clean bath toy – The playset includes a red panda, bucket and a floating ring that opens up for easy cleaning

Build skills in the bathtub – Toddlers put 2 bricks together to make the panda, then place it in the floating ring for endless play opportunities

Floating Animal Train (10965)

14 pieces | $19.99

Buildable animals – The playset includes a hippo, duck and polar bear, a bucket, rain cloud and 3 floating rings that open up for quick and easy cleaning

Developmental fun – Toddlers put 2 bricks together to build each animal, then place them in the floating rings. The toddler-friendly rings connect, disconnect and bubble as they move through the water

Floating Animal Island (10966)

20 pieces | $39.99

Multipurpose bath toy – LEGO® DUPLO® My First Bath Time Fun: Floating Animal Island (10966) is a versatile, easy-to-clean playset featuring an island that doubles as a storage container

Build, play and learn – The playset includes a fish, octopus, lion and flamingo. A floating island splits into 2 separate floating sections, with the bottom half also allowing play outside the bath

Imaginative play – Toddlers put together the easy-build animals then have developmental fun on and around the floating island paradise

Seasonal LEGO Easter Rabbits Display (40523) Coming Next Month

Earlier this week we featured a certain seasonal LEGO set commemorating a key occasion next month, but already available now. And from the box for LEGO’s Valentine Lovebirds (40522) we got advance notice of another seasonal set. If you noticed that it involves building two animals like 40522, then we’re all onto something. The same deal also applies to some of the newest LEGO BrickHeadz sets launching at the start of February. That coincidentally is also when this seasonal set will become available. As shared by The Brick Fan, LEGO.com now has an online listing for Easter Rabbits Display (40523).

Two Easter Bunnies on a flower field with Easter Eggs galore await collectors who want LEGO’s seasonal set 40523. The fact that there are two bunnies, just as there are two lovebirds, hearkens to LEGO’s “Build Together” campaign. Two main set pieces (bunnies/lovebirds) can be assembled by two builders. which they can combine in the setting base afterwards. It’s even simpler with the upcoming BrickHeadz featuring two buildable character figures making a pair. You might get to experience this “building-together” atmosphere too when Easter Rabbits Display (40523) launches February 1.

Easter Rabbits Display (40523)

288 pieces | $12.99 | coming February 1

Celebrate the Easter season with this adorable LEGO® Easter Rabbits Display (40523) building kit. The set features a white bunny and a light brown bunny sitting together in a spring meadow. The 5 colorful Easter eggs and 3 tulips complete the scene and can be displayed however you choose. Discover the new-for-2022 transparent pink opalescent element included on 1 of the eggs for an extra sweet touch to delight LEGO fans.

2-Figure LEGO BrickHeadz Sets Coming February

The upcoming LEGO Harry Potter set listings are done. Next we have what’s coming next for the general LEGO BrickHeadz line. And if the LHP items will have to wait until the first of March, these BrickHeadz will be arriving earlier. Even better, these are all two-characters-per-one-set deals. No less than three franchises get able representation here. In fact, one of them was already spoiled in December last year. They figured in the back of the box for the solo Buzz Lightyear (40552) BrickHeadz. Now, Brickset found these listings first on LEGO.com Russia. However, as of this writing all major editions of the online LEGO Shop would already have them.

Stranger Things: Demogorgon & Eleven (40549)

192 pieces | $19.99 | coming February 1

Here’s a treat for fans of Netflix’s Stranger Things TM. These LEGO® BrickHeadz™ Demogorgon & Eleven (40459) buildable figures depict 2 of the series’ most iconic characters. Perfect for display, the figures make a great gift idea for ages 16 and up and come with authentic details, such as the Demogorgon’s opening flower head and Eleven’s waffle and outfit as featured in the series during her escape from the facility.

Disney-Pixar “Toy Story”: Woody & Bo Peep (40553)

296 pieces | $19.99 | coming February 1

Hang out with two beloved movie characters by making these LEGO® BrickHeadz™ style buildable Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 4 figures, Woody and Bo Peep (40553). It’s a clever gift idea for kids aged 10 and up, who will love authentic details such as Woody’s iconic cowboy outfit and Bo Peep’s cute hair bow and shepherd’s crook. With baseplates for display, these awesome construction toys will make a unique addition to any Toy Story fan’s collection.

Looney Tunes: Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote (40559)

205 pieces |$19.99 | coming February 1

Prepare for endless hijinks with these LEGO® BrickHeadz™ style buildable figures of Looney Tunes™ characters Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote (40559). The set makes a great gift idea for kids aged 10 and up, who will love the authentic colors and cute, brick-built models. With baseplates for displaying the figures, this awesome little construction toy set will make a nostalgic and eye-catching start or iconic addition to any Looney Toons cartoon fan’s collection.

March 1 LEGO Harry Potter Sets Now Listed by LEGO

Perhaps you may still recall that exciting period in mid-December 2021 when a German-language catalog spilled many 2022 LEGO sets. Some of them weren’t even launching with the massive bunch on New Year’s Day, but later on. While the catalog preview was nice, they don’t quite match the official air of a LEGO.com product listing. And it just so happens that the online LEGO Shop has started putting up those catalog items this week. We’re going to delve into these reveals now. To begin, here are LEGO Harry Potter’s latest as shared by Brick Fanatics.

Hogwarts Moments Series

Divination Class (76396)

297 pieces | 3 minifigures | $29.99 | coming March 1

LEGO® Harry Potter™ Hogwarts™ Moment: Divination Class (76396) is an instant playset inside a brick-built playbook packed with popular characters and familiar features from Professor Trelawney’s Divination classroom, for ages 8+.

Pick up and play – LEGO® Harry Potter Hogwarts Moment: Divination Class (76396) is a handy-sized, brick-built playbook that opens to reveal a Hogwarts classroom packed with play possibilities

Authentic details – Includes Harry Potter, Parvati Patil and Professor Trelawney minifigures and cool accessories including an armchair, desk, student chairs, a crystal ball, teacups and a cupboard

Magical fun – Kids open the cover to enter Professor Trelawney’s Divination lesson and use the magical supplies to look into the future with Harry and Parvati

Defence Against the Dark Arts Class (76397)

257 pieces | 3 minifigures |$29.99 | coming March 1

Magical play possibilities – Inside the LEGO® Harry Potter™ Hogwarts™ Moment: Defence Class (76397) playbook is a classroom filled with features to inspire imaginative role play

Hogwarts™ classroom – Includes Mad-Eye Moody, Hermione Granger™ and Neville Longbottom™ minifigures, plus lots of authentic accessories, including a blackboard, trunk, potion bottles, desk and chairs

Captivating fun – When kids open their LEGO® playbook, they instantly enter Professor Moody’s Defence Against theDark Arts lesson. Next door is his office, with a trunk containing mini-Moody!

Just like the movies – The Mad-Eye Moody minifigure transforms into Barty Crouch Jr. by turning his head and replacing the hair. The trunk contains a microfigure decorated as the real Mad-Eye Moody

Hogwarts (Modular)

Hospital Wing (76398)

510 pieces | 4 minifigures | $49.99 | coming March 1

Perfect for Harry Potter™ fans – LEGO® Harry Potter Hogwarts™ Hospital Wing (76398) is packed with role-play fun, from treating injuries in the infirmary to time-travel adventures in the clock tower

Popular characters – Includes Harry Potter™, Hermione Granger™, Ron Weasley™ and Madam Pomfrey minifigures, plus a buildable Hospital Wing and clock tower with authentic accessories

Many ways to play – Kids can recreate the iconic hospital-wing time-travelling scene from Harry Potter™ and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ and conjure up endless enchanting stories of their own

LEGO Ending Store Calendars this 2022

As November of the previous year gave way to December, LEGO put up their December 2021 Store Calendar. To make no bones about it, that LEGO Store Calendar was as bland as can be. The date spaces were bare where exclusives and events used to be marked. The LEGO Creator Skiing Santa Claus (3058) GWP remained the only notable offer listed in that month’s calendar. We know that there would have been more GWPs like Mr. and Mrs. Claus’ Living Room (40489) that were cancelled. It was a lackluster store calendar …and as it turns out, probably the last one too.

The Brick Fan reports that, starting this year 2022, we will be getting no monthly LEGO Store Calendars. This development was gleaned from an update image, ostensibly from LEGO, frequenting LEGO-related social media. The reason the post gives ranged from changes in marketing strategy, operational shifts, and current global events. As a result of these factors, LEGO can’t seem to put in a greater variety of calendar content. After all, would you brave going into a LEGO Store when health alerts are still ongoing. This would explain why we have no January 2022 calendar from LEGO. Of course, this is just what that announcement image tells us for now.

Said post hasn’t exactly been substantiated by LEGO itself. Then again, certain recent developments do give credence to the halt of monthly store calendar updates. We at The Brick Show have enjoyed sharing what we learn from these formerly-regular and fun-filled announcements. But if December 2021 was indeed the end, then know that we’ll miss the LEGO Store calendars already. Hopefully LEGO’s potential replacement for them is just as engaging.

Addendum: LEGO has confirmed it. In the future the LEGO.com Stores page will update the usual Calendar info such as GWPs and events .

Another LEGO Ideas 10-K Submission: “Sheriff’s Office” by Lucky

Building sets remain king among the 10-K-supported submissions for LEGO Ideas Third 2021 Review Stage. Original or licensed-IP, their combined numbers simply outstrip every other product idea genre in this grouping. Judging from the quality of what we’ve been seeing however, we may not want it any other way. It does make choosing one to favor (outside the judging) difficult though. They’re all so awesome. And this new submission from Ideas member llucky muddles the “sure” fan favorites even further. It may be another original without a licensed IP basis. But who can say no to this level of detail?

“Sheriff’s Office – Wild West” by llucky is another complex, detail-heavy building set aspiring to pass review in LEGO Ideas. Looking at the images we feature here, we can confidently say this product idea earned its 10,000 supporters. The Sheriff’s Office building is a two-story brick-built structure, familiarly designed in the Old-West architectural aesthetic.

Serving as both workplace and residence, the sheriff holds office and keeps crooks locked up in the first floor. The second floor contains his meager quarters and a strongbox for money and other valuables. The office also boasts a two-side balcony for observation and necessary defensive purposes.

The set is populated by six minifigures: sheriff and deputy, two passing cowboys and two hostile bandits. Two minifig horses and a buildable vulture add atmospheric accents to the scene. Variouslarge props from the rainwater barrel to the horse-cart and sheriff’s desk are full of painstaking detail.

Rest assured, Western aficionado LEGO collectors will have a grand time posing, displaying and playing with this set. For that to happen however, it must prove its worth in the 34-strong Third 2021 Review Stage. It ought to wind down this early 2022.

Building Instructions Available for LEGO Brand Store (40528), New GWP for Store Openings

LEGO gifts-with-purchase sets run the gamut from common and easily-acquired, to being uncommonly rare. The latter group goes beyond merely being in-store exclusive for instance, but rather because their availability becomes highly situational. Now, since 2012 LEGO’s been presenting GWP sets available only during the openings of their new Branded stores. The building set depicts, naturally, a brick-built LEGO Store as well, with new iterations introduced every few years. Given how uncommon new LEGO branded stores open worldwide, their accompanying GWPs are limited too. With the retirement of the most recent LEGO Brand Store set (40145), a new version was previewed at last year’s end.

And according to German LEGO news source Promobricks¸ building instructions for the new LEGO Brand Store (40528) are now available. They can be found, as usual, in LEGO.com’s Building Instructions portal. As you can see in the box image, we’ve a fully-enclosed build for the next GWP exclusive for new LEGO Store openings. It doesn’t even feature a single minifigure, but has a sticker sheet included for added details. The introduction of this LEGO Store (40528) GWP couldn’t come at a better time. The previous set 40145 was already in low quantity even before retirement this year.

In fact, 40145’s scarcity the reopening of LEGO’s branded store in Bonn, Germany used another LEGO Store set as GWP. Said micro-scale set (40305) is actually a retail version, still listed at LEGO.com (20% off) but currently sold out. For any new branded LEGO Stores opening this 2022 and beyond, GWP set 40528 is what to expect. Of course, those new stores should open near you if you want a shot at collecting this item. As you know, being a GWP it comes free with a minimum total LEGO purchase.

LEGO Unleashes “Spooky” Trailer for Super Mario “Luigi’s Mansion” Sets Released January 1

Way back in November of last year, we learned of the next step in LEGO Super Mario sets. The red-and-blue plumber’s handed the spotlight over to his green-and-blue brother, with sets based on the GameCube title “Luigi’s Mansion.” These three LEGO sets launched with so many others on the first day of the New Year, 2022. Let’s just say the “Luigi’s Mansion” tie-ins are starkly different from their Mario-centric predecessors. Aside from focusing on Luigi, the sets are also spookily themed. True, the original 2001 game on the Nintendo GameCube went rather gothic. And LEGO has some fun reminding fans.

Brick Fanatics has it that LEGO released a launch video for the recently-launched LEGO Super Mario “Luigi’s Mansion” sets. A lemony voiceover narrator provides the tone as the scene plays out of a family enjoying said play-sets. Like other LEGO Super Mario sets, these new ones can be combined to make an expanded play area. Our brick-built Luigi can be powered up by the Lab and Poltergust Expansion Set (71397), giving him his ghost-sucking vacuum cleaner. From there, he must navigate two key areas of “his” mansion. Those would be the Entryway (71399) and Haunt and Seek (71401) Expansion sets.

Hearing LEGO Luigi’s adorably scared voice lines while interacting with these new sets just never gets old. And it goes double if you’ve played “Luigi’s Mansion” on the GameCube years ago. Of course, Nintendo developed sequels for the game on the 3DS and Switch. LEGO willing, we’ll get more “Mansion” expansion sets covering these games too. In the meantime, collectors can get these three January-1^st releases now, and relive their mansion-exploring, ghost-vacuuming days of old.